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Discuss (3 comments)August 12, 2008
Jake Deitchler had a tough draw as he lost to the Ukrainian to get in the Bronze medal match. The Ukranian eventually one the bronze. Deitchler outwreslted the Ukrainian. He scored the only offensive points of the match in the second period, but each period the Ukrainian won the black bag ball game and won each of his two periods on the criteria that he scored last. 1-1, 3-1, 1-1. Deitchler wrestled awesome and lost both his matches to the top meadlists. TC Dantzler goes 0-1. Dantzler was eliminated from competition when he lost his first round bout and his competitor failed to make it to the finals. What makes the Russians so good? Already they are 2 for 2 with 2 gold medals. Terry Brands has suggested that they grow up dreaming of being world champions from a young age while we grow up dreaming of being state champions. Projecting a poor image. Weight loss and Porn scandal. Most of us have heard about the Nebraska scandal and the first thoughts were "say it aint so" Paul Donahue and Kenny Jordan have made a mistake.,As many people have done when they were young. I hope they can bounce back from this situation and get on with their careers. During the Olympics we crave for some great press but instead we get these types of articles. Spencer Mango goes 1-1 and fails to make the finals. He won his first match vs. Romania 1-1, 5-1 in straight periods. His opponent showed some attitude and was making a fuss toward the ref. In the quarterfinals Spencer Mango fell to the Korean in two periods. The match was stopped for Spencer Mangos eye for medical attention. The Korean lost to the Russian in the Semis, which eliminated Spencer Mango from the tournament. Jason Borelli assumes head coaching job at Stanford. Nate Yetzer named new full-time assistant at Virginia tech. Mark Perry take assistant role at Penn State. Mac Mancuso of Holy Spirit, a NJ State Champ in 2007 as a sophomore, was injured his junior year and is getting ready to go after another state title his senior year.
In 1948 Olympics, Gerald "Germ" Leeman won a silver medal at 125.5 weight class. He is from the same hometown asDoug Schwab. Here Doug talks about Leeman's adventure as well as some hopes for his own. Scott Winston finished high school with a perfect record and will be attending Rutgers for the upcoming wrestling season. Here he discuses his high school career and what he needs to do to compete at the next level.
Quick Questionnaire with Brock Lesnar
most of us like america over russia. quit whining, oh russia takes care of their wrestlers. america, takes care of tc. how many russian wrestlers own a million dollar company. america provides opportunity/ freedom to be wealthy with ur creativity, hard work.............with low taxes. would u rather tc sat at home and study wrestling moves for the rest of his life on a crappy russian pension? hell no. lets see give tc $3000 a month for living he should be fine. yeah!! if only that, we could be great wrestlers like the russians. bs. lets ask tc if he'd give up his life in usa to go live in russia cause they care about him and will give him some money each month to live on.